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Silicon Photonics Test Engineer

AMD
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/19/2025
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The Role

As a Silicon Photonics Test Engineer in the Product Engineering Architecture team, you will collaborate with various Product Development Groups, Silicon Design, DFT, Packaging, and interface with key technology partners. This individual serves as a critical technical point of contact to ensure best-practices and new test concepts are architected, developed, and driven throughout the organization. This position focuses on developing production test solutions for silicon photonics. You will be part of a larger team that defines test solutions from concept, development, to production deployment.

The Person

This is a technical leadership position that requires engineering experience in semiconductor test with a focus on silicon photonics. The ideal candidate should have a proven ability to tackle complex test and manufacturing challenges for various silicon photonics & optical interconnect technologies. This role requires excellent communication and coordination across various teams and capable of defining long-term test solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with silicon design, product & test, and packaging teams to architect & define test solutions for silicon photonics at wafersort, die-level, and CPO-level
  • Collaborate with design, packaging, and key suppliers to understand structural and parametric mechanisms for performance, yield, reliability and quality issues
  • Interface with suppliers to provide technical inputs & test requirements to enable production-worthy end-to-end solutions
  • Deep knowledge to train other teams & engineers in the field of silicon photonics from design, packaging, to volume test
  • Responsible for identifying & mitigating test challenges and executing large technical projects and processes in a timely manner


Preferred Experience/Skills

  • Proven experience in the field of optical interconnects and silicon photonics
  • Familiar with general test & manufacturing of silicon photonics
  • Experience with Microsoft standard apps (i.e. Office) & Windows.
  • Good communication skills and ability to work with geographically distributed engineering teams.


Academic Credentials

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, Optics & Photonics Engineering, or comparable disciplines


LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA

At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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